Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print Our Country's Heroes 1899 —

Our Country's Heroes 1899 — a commemorative chromolithograph assembled in the flush of victory

when the Navy's prized wrought-iron gun burst on the Potomac and killed half of President Tyler's cabinet in a single white plume

that it had survived itself

the bathers in wool stockings — Old Orchard Beach was New England's seaside carnival

when Adams had traded the executive mansion for a House seat and the moral thunder of an antislavery conscience that refused to be gaveled silent

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print Our Country's Heroes 1899 —Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,